rblythe wrote these words on 07/02/06 17:07 CST: > The only reason I was root user > in the first place was per the BLFS instruction to run > /user/bin/thunderbird as root "to create additional files in the > usr/lib/thunderbird-1.5.0.2 directory.
Seems you missed a key word there. The word "once". As in only one time. :-) > I appears that I went to far in trying to set my system up to share one > e-mail account while logged in as root. I would doubt it, but you never know. All Thunderbird personal data for a user is kept in ~/.thunderbird (on unix), so chances are it is just the root user has the profile pointing correctly. I have a directory that contains this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ~ > ls -lart .thunderbird total 24 -rw-r--r-- 1 randy randy 104 Mar 27 19:36 profiles.ini -rw-r--r-- 1 randy randy 335 Mar 27 19:36 appreg -rw------- 1 randy randy 331 Mar 27 19:38 pluginreg.dat drwxr-xr-x 3 randy randy 4096 Mar 27 19:38 . drwx------ 9 randy randy 4096 Jun 15 06:08 xk3anaop.default drwx------ 31 randy randy 4096 Jul 2 13:07 .. Have you tried creating a symlink in your home directory named .thunderbird that points to the directory that contains the files you see above? If you haven't, do it and everything will probably be alright. If you've already tried that, then I'm not sure what to think. You may examine root's home directory, especially .thunderbird and just duplicate it in the regular user's home directory. I'm not sure this is the recommended method of transferring a profile but it works for me. I know there's been plenty of times that I simply copied .thunderbird from an old home dir to a newly created partition (new lfs) and everything works as expected. Good luck. -- Randy rmlscsi: [bogomips 1003.27] [GNU ld version 2.16.1] [gcc (GCC) 4.0.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.6] [Linux 2.6.14.3 i686] 17:14:00 up 51 days, 9:14, 1 user, load average: 0.05, 0.08, 0.05 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
